[c-nsp] Suggestions wanting: Implementing dual location redundancy

[Dennis]

No... anycast will do proximity routing to the closest server but it will
have no ability to know if the service is up and running... they'll need
load balancing for that... D

On 5/23/07, Garry <gkg at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> one of our customers approached us with the following requirement:
>
> They need to set up an FTP server, which needs to be redundant for HA.
> Anyway, the customer would like to have it hosted at seperate locations.
> The tough part is that the client software does not have DNS capability,
> so a fixed IP has to be entered.
>
> The servers would both be hosted inside our network, so no problem
> getting routes anounced via OSPF or similar. The problem is how do I let
> a router (all 7200/12000 series) know that the local service is down at
> one location and that it should rather activate the same subnet at
> another?
>
> Would Anycast allow for service availability discovery?
>
> Tnx, -gg
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